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H. BONNER.

LIFE SAVING NET FOR USE AT FIRES. No. 860,082. Patented Mar. 29, 1887.

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFrIcE.

HUGH BONNER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LIFE-SAVING N ET FOR USE AT FIRES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,082, dated March 29, 1887.

A ppiication tiled February 24, 1887. Serial No. 228,658. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: D, composed of strong rope, prderably of ma- Be it known that I, HUGH BONNER, a citinila. The radial ropc sB are knotted, spliced, o

zen oftheUnited States, residing at New York, or seized to the central ring, A, and to each of in the county of New York and State of New the concentric rings D, and also to the outer 5 York, have invented certain new and useful ring, 0, and these radial ropes 13 preferably ex- Improvements in Lifesaving Nets for Use at tend entirely across the apparatus, crossing Fires, of which the following is aspecification, one another within the central ring, A.

reference being had therein to the accompany- All the parts of this apparatus should be of drawing. the strongest material, and the points of knot- 0 My invention relates to improvements in ting, splicing, or seizing should be made perlife-saving apparatus for use at fires; and the fectly secure. objects of my invention are to provide a net In practice the outer ring, 0, forms a constrong enough to resist the weight of bodies tinuous handle, which may be grasped by a falling from a great height, and in which the large number of men, and as the radial lines 15 tension of the parts shall be equal, and which E extend from the ring 0 directly toward the shall be provided with suitable means about center, the outward'pull upon the ring 0 will its circumference for keeping the tension equal. cause the entire apparatus to be perfectly taut, I attain these objects by the mechanism illusand will cause the strain of any body falling trated in the accompanying drawing. upon it to be borne equally by all the parts.

20 Heretofore nets or canvas used at fires for a At the same time the construction of the appasimilar purpose have consisted either of text ratus is such that it may be rolled up and ile fabric with handles attached around the packed into a very small space. to edge, or else of cotton webbing, in which the I have found by experiment that the best warp and woof were each in parallel lines and size of apparatus is about ten feet in diameter.

25 sewed together at the points ofcrossing. These What I claim as myinvention, and desire to forms of apparatus were not sufiicieutly strong secure by Letters Patent, is to resist the weight of falling bodies, and they A life-saving apparatus consisting of the were liable to sag. By means of my invencentral ring, A, radial ropes B, outer ring, 0, tion these difiiculties are entirely removed. andinterrnediate concentric ropes, D, all se- 0 In the drawing, A represents a central ring, curely knotted, spliced, or seized together,

preferably of steel, and preferably about eight substantially as described. inches in diameter, and preferably bronzed to In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature in prevent it from rusting. From this ring propresence of two witnesses, this 19th day of ject radially the cords B to the outer ring, 0, February, 1887.

35 which is composed of a stout rope, preferably HUGH BONNER.

of manila, and about one inch in thickness. \Vitnesses:

Between the central ring, A, and the outer C. NVYLLYs BITTS, ring, 0, are arranged in concentric circles rings CHAS. G. T. WAnLn, Jr. 

